lost all settings #3937

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opened 2026-02-21 17:02:42 -05:00 by deekerman · 3 comments

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2026-02-21 17:02:42 -05:00

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Originally created by @smaosmao on GitHub (Feb 17, 2016).

A couple times in the last few months I've lost all my qBittorrent settings. Most recently (yesterday) it happened just before the qBittorrent client notified me that an update was available; that is, my settings were lost before I actually updated the client.

I posted this the other day, and the topic was closed. However, I should have specified that the problem occurs on the latest version of qBittorrent (3.3.3). It happened again last night: I left the program on overnight, and I woke up to a Windows error saying that there was no disk space left on my hard drive. I closed qBittorrent, and when I reopened it all my settings torrents were lost.

Originally created by @smaosmao on GitHub (Feb 17, 2016). A couple times in the last few months I've lost all my qBittorrent settings. Most recently (yesterday) it happened just before the qBittorrent client notified me that an update was available; that is, my settings were lost before I actually updated the client. I posted this the other day, and the topic was closed. However, I should have specified that the problem occurs on the latest version of qBittorrent (3.3.3). It happened again last night: I left the program on overnight, and I woke up to a Windows error saying that there was no disk space left on my hard drive. I closed qBittorrent, and when I reopened it all my settings torrents were lost.

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2026-02-21 17:02:45 -05:00

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2026-02-21 17:02:47 -05:00

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@chrishirst commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2016):

Perfectly understandable, .... No disc space means, unable to save settings data at close, as it requires 2x configuration file sizes to save the data successfully.

@chrishirst commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2016): Perfectly understandable, .... No disc space means, unable to save settings data at close, as it requires 2x configuration file sizes to save the data successfully.

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@Lestat87 commented on GitHub (Feb 25, 2016):

I had the exact same issue & lost all my listed torrents when a steam game did a dodgy update. While the logic behind it not being able to save makes sense. The bit where the settings aren't backed up makes less sense (running a hook on it with spystudio or procmon shows the temp file creation occurs during program startup before torrents are loaded) or even a warning message that save must be created for qbt to successfully close. On a more positive note the next version will have some bug fixes to minimize data loss on crash so it is possible it may also apply when no hdd space is avi (https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4454)

@Lestat87 commented on GitHub (Feb 25, 2016): I had the exact same issue & lost all my listed torrents when a steam game did a dodgy update. While the logic behind it not being able to save makes sense. The bit where the settings aren't backed up makes less sense (running a hook on it with spystudio or procmon shows the temp file creation occurs during program startup before torrents are loaded) or even a warning message that save must be created for qbt to successfully close. On a more positive note the next version will have some bug fixes to minimize data loss on crash so it is possible it may also apply when no hdd space is avi (https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4454)

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@ngosang commented on GitHub (Sep 16, 2018):

We are closing all issues related to old qBittorrent versions (qBittorrent < 4.1.0).
Please, update to last release and, if the bug/error/crash is still present, open another issue.
Thank you.

@ngosang commented on GitHub (Sep 16, 2018): We are closing all issues related to old qBittorrent versions (qBittorrent < 4.1.0). Please, update to last release and, if the bug/error/crash is still present, open another issue. Thank you.